https://70brigade.newmp.org.uk/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Strickland_Ernest_Newton_2%2FLieut._153378Strickland Ernest Newton 2/Lieut. 153378 - Revision history2026-05-07T20:40:48ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.26.3https://70brigade.newmp.org.uk/w/index.php?title=Strickland_Ernest_Newton_2/Lieut._153378&diff=26203&oldid=prev70bgadmin at 15:18, 6 August 20192019-08-06T15:18:04Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Unit=Joined The Durham Light Infantry - granted an Emergency Commission as a 2/Lt gazetted 25/10/1940.  Posted to the 11th Battalion DLI.  Posted  ? Battalion DLI.  Taken Prisoner of War (in Middle East?).  Repatriated.  Transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps as a Lieutenant from his Emergency Commission in the DLI on 2/8/1947 - with seniority from 13/11/1941.  Retired as a Major 27/5/1960 on retirement pay.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">|Date of birth=January 1919 in South Shields, mother's maiden name Eurlong.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lt Strickland's military career has several blanks.  He arguably was posted to the 11th DLI in time to serve in Iceland but confirmation of that has not yet been found - however, it is quite likely.  It is not at all clear where or when he was captured - he did not serve with the B.E.F. having not been commissioned until late October 1940.  It is not known if he served in Normandy - his name was not extracted from a Field Return over that period so it is possible that he was transferred overseas to one of the other DLI Battalions and then captured in the Middle East.</ins></div></td></tr>
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|Surname and forenames=Strickland Ernest Newton<br />
|Army number=153378<br />
|Rank=2/Lieut. <br />
|Unit=Joined The Durham Light Infantry - granted an Emergency Commission as a 2/Lt gazetted 25/10/1940. Posted to the 11th Battalion DLI. Posted ? Battalion DLI. Taken Prisoner of War (in Middle East?). Repatriated. Transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps as a Lieutenant from his Emergency Commission in the DLI on 2/8/1947 - with seniority from 13/11/1941. Retired as a Major 27/5/1960 on retirement pay.<br />
|Joined Brigade=Date not yet confirmed.<br />
|Promotions=Captain, Acting Major, Major 13/5/1953 with seniority only from 25/4/1953.<br />
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.<br />
|Prisoner of War=Held in Oflag O79 - Brunswick, Lower Saxony. PoW Number 1934.<br />
|Source table=11DLI<br />
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